No cook would want to be without the common onion, Allium cepa, an essential kitchen staple that figures in cuisines around the world. But not every onion is there to be sliced, chopped or diced — ...

The recent boom in native-plant interest focuses mainly on trees, shrubs, grasses, and perennial flowers – by far the main workhorse plants of Pennsylvania landscapes. But even with the diversity ...

Emily Dickinson thought hope was the "thing with feathers," but a flower bulb seems like a better metaphor for hope. Tucked into the earth months in advance, bulbs are packed with promise of a ...

“An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.” — Will Rogers I received some interesting information from my favorite onion producers and would like to ...

Though scallions, green onions and spring onions have a similar appearance, these plants mainly differ in age harvested. All are low in calories and contain some beneficial plant compounds. Scallions, ...